Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Mo_coon-catcher on December 24, 2018, 01:46:02 pm
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Here’s the Penobscot I’ve been piddling with over the past year. I’m finally content with it and will call it finished. I had to make a second backer bow as the first didn’t have enough reflex to work with the bridges. It has a bit of thump but is really not too bad. Over all it shoots well and was interesting to mess with. I may try another bow that I’ve done one.
The main bow had extremely tight growth rings, with some spots a bit tighter than 1/64”. I got most of it pretty well but there was one spot that was next to a damaged area of the tree to I was having trouble with so I put a silk backing on to help reduce the possibility of splinters popping up in those spots. I think I had the main bow pulling about 30# at 27” before the backer bow was attached.
Thanks for looking,
Kyle
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And some more
Kyle
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Excellent accomplishment Mo paying attention to all the little details along with stating the increase in draw weight.Tiller looks spot on to me.
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Great work...
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Looks real neat to me! I may try one someday!
Hawkdancer
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Cool! Can we have some closer pictures of the string anchors and tips, they look interesting. :D
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Good looking bow.
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Looks like ya nailed that one. Congrats, Mr Kyle.
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Wow! Very cool man, you are a talented guy with skills.
I guess this take some time to make
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I'm not a fan of the Penobscot >:( , but I like the workmanship and attention to detail on your one :)
Del
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Looks good Kyle
i made a friend one several years ago he took it to wyoming on a hunt and the land owner liked it so much he left it with him at the and of the hunt .got a letter from the rancher a couple weeks later saying i was welcome to come and hunt any time i wanted .guess thats passing it on.
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I was thinking that a bow like that could not be effecienet,, but if you had a bow that was too light, what would be a good way to put some weight on,, without adding much mass,, seems like,,if you go from 30 to 50 that got to shoot the arrow a bit harder,,
nice job on that one,, congrats,,
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Nice work Mo. 8)
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Thanks everyone!
It was definitely interesting to build. And took a bit to figure out how much reflex the backer bow needed with the string bridges. It definitely did improve upon the base bow. The main bow was fairly slow and thunky. The wood almost acted rubber, you can see it in the limb oscillation in the slow mo video. But the backer bow pulled it up to about 170fps but retained the vibration.
I’m not a huge fan yet, but I’m definitely going to try another and refine it a bit.
Kyle
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Splendid job on those! Seems 2018 was a successful bow year at your place - looking forward 2019!
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Nice job, well done. Bring it up to MoJAM next, whoops, this year.
That is one type of bow that is still on my to-do list.
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That‘s a cool bow. Well executed and nice bend. I DO like Penobscots (obviously ;)) and Micmacs (Mi‘kmaqs). Since the cables are guided over the tips of the secondary bow and then fastened close to the grip, this one is rather a Micmac, than a Penobscot, though.
Best regards
Torsten
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Great work on a complicated task! Tiller looks great. How is the draw and arrow speed? I have been interested in this style bow for a while and might try making one myself.
Cheers
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You did an outstanding job on this one Kyle. Congratulations my friend. :OK
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Nice work.Good job, and a conversation piece for sure.